The Company
Bristol Water has supplied drinking water for over 160 years, always striving to provide high quality services and value for money. As part of the Agbar Group – an international water business – we now have access to an even wider range of industry expertise and skills to develop our services to customers.
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We serve a population of 1.1 million people and all the associated businesses in an area of 1,000 square miles centred on Bristol. Our area of supply ranges from Thornbury and Tetbury in the north to Street and Glastonbury in the south, from Weston-s-Mare in the west to Frome in the east. We provide a bulk supply of water to Bath. Wessex Water provide sewerage services in much of our area.
We own three major reservoirs (Chew, Blagdon and Cheddar) and a number of boreholes as sources of raw water. But nearly half the water used in our area comes from rivers outside our area of supply including the River Severn.
We have a range of treatment works from the simple to the highly complex. These feed water into a network of pumping stations, storage reservoirs and mains so that we can deliver high quality water to customers’ properties as they want to use it.
On average each person uses over a tonne (1,000 litres) of water each week.
Facts and Figures
Area of supply
2,400 square kilometres
Number of supplies
500,800
Length of mains
6,600 kilometres
Population served
1,119,000
Average daily supply
282 million litres
Sources
68 (including reservoirs, rivers, springs, wells and boreholes)
Raw water reservoirs
14 (the largest, Chew Lake, can hold 20,460 million litres)
Treatment works
16 (output ranges from 2 million litres/day at Tetbury to 165 million litres/day at Purton)
Pumping stations
164
Covered storage reservoirs
139 (the largest, Pucklechurch, can hold 115 million litres)
